Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis